" M.g.f. [My grandfather] was born in 1700. Jan. 1." But Shane then notes that Trumbo went on explaining the date of the year, saying: "Died in March, & if he had lived till new-year, he wo'd h.b. [would have been] 85. He went to the S. Br. [South Branch of the Potomac River]: a young man."Fortunately for us, but unknowingly, Trumbo negated his first statement by his elaboration. We know this because we know when Michael died, something surely his grandson knew and his descendants should have known. Michael's will was proved 08 March 1785 in the Hampshire County, Virginia, Court. The negation was in the logic of Trumbo's "explanation." Simple arithmetic requires that if Michael died in March 1785, and needed to have lived until January of 1786 to become 85, then he must have been born in the year 1701.
"family of man & wife: Joachim Ernst Kraft Hörner, Hintersass and Apollonia (surname unknown),The way the data is used by the compiler allows us to make sound deductions that add to our knowledge of this family.7 By using just the dates and events presented in the book, and the strictures placed upon such usage, we see that Joachim and Apollonia arrived in Unteröwisheim sometime before January 1701, but probably after 1695.8 Daughter Regina Magdalena was with them but died in the new village 02 May 1701 at age 4y, 4m, 2d [indicating birth elsewhere on 30 Dec 1697]. In the meantime, their son, Michel [Michael] Ernst Kraft Hörner was born there on 02 Jan 1701. Later records in North America indicate he had been given the baptismal name of Johann, which eventually, like most young German men, he ceased to use.9 Michael's younger sister, Susanna Barbara, also was born there, on 17 December 1703, but lived only 3 weeks, dying on 06 January 1704.
3 Kinder (children):
Regina Magdalena b. ______, d. 2.5.1701 [02 May 1701] age 4/4/2
Michel Ernst b. 2.1.1701 [ 02 Jan 1701]
Susanna Barbara b. 17.12.1703 [17 Dec 1703]; d. 6.1.1704 [06 Jan 1704]"
Father: Joachim Ernst Kraft HÖRNER, b. prob. ca1660 in Germany; d. betw. 04 August and 04 October 1710 in New York. | |
Mother: Apollonia [surname UNKNOWN], b. prob. bef. 1670 in Germany; d. betw. 1704 and 1710 [place unknown]. [Marriage date unknown] | |
Children: | |
Anna Margaretha HÖRNER, b. ca1691 in Germany; d. aft. 1744 in
New York, prob. near Stone Arabia. m. Johannes KAYSER, 05 September 1710 in West Camp, Ulster County, New York. [for probable 10 children see Jones, I, p. 440] [Johannes said to be from Unteröwisheim, but not found in Ortssippenbuch.] Johann Conrad Mattheus HÖRNER, b. ca1695 in Germany; bound as apprentice to an Enoch Freeland of New York on 23 Nov 1710. Regina Magdalena HÖRNER, b. ca31 December 1696 in Germany; d. 02 May 1701 in Unteröwisheim, Baden. Johann Michael Ernst [Kraft] HÖRNER, b. 02 January 1701 in Unteröwisheim, Baden; d. prob. March 1785 in Hampshire County, Virginia. m. Maria Elisabetha Dieffenbach, in early 1720s in New York or Pennsylvania. She was baptized 08 July 1705 in Wiesloch, Baden; d. prob. 1796 in Hardy County, Virginia. 13 children (dates very uncertain). Susanna Barbara HÖRNER, b. 17 December 1703 and d. 06 January 1704 in Unteröwisheim, Baden. |